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How Mesopotamian scribes learned to write legal documents : a study of the Sumerian model contracts in the Babyloniam Collection at Yale University / Walter R. Bodine ; with a foreword by William W. Hallo.
Penn Museum Library KL1171 .B64 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bodine, Walter Ray, author.
- Language:
- Akkadian
- English
- Sumerian
- Subjects (All):
- Contracts (Sumerian law).
- Law, Sumerian--Language.
- Law, Sumerian.
- Sumerian language--Texts.
- Sumerian language.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 281 pages, 26 variously numbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston, New York : The Edwin Mellen Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- Contains English translations of inscriptions in both Akkadian and Sumerian.
- Summary:
- Consists of an edition of six tablets from the Yale Babylonian Collection with an introduction to the Sumerian model contracts.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Past study
- Texts
- Commentary
- Genre
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- "A Queenston book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-269) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0773435379
- 9780773435377
- OCLC:
- 882191622
- Publisher Number:
- 99963226115
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